Dream City by Conrad Christiaan Kickert
Creation, Destruction, And Reinvention In Downtown Detroit
Dream City traces two centuries of downtown Detroit’s rise, decline, and renewal. Conrad Kickert explores the stark contrast between a recently revitalized core and surrounding blight, showing how repeated reinventions—driven by the automobile, suburbanization, land consolidation, and powerful local actors—reshaped the urban fabric. Through original morphological maps and historical vignettes, he explains how competing visions and economic forces produced Detroit’s distinctive downtown and suggests its patterns resonate beyond the city.
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- 2019
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- 456
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